Next steps

- [Barton Poulson] If you're interested…in what we've covered in this,…if you're looking for new ways…that you can use data science to look at…sports and sports management,…then you've got some wonderful opportunities.…The first thing you're going to want to do…is to sharpen your tools.…Get your analytical tool set together…so you can start doing all the analyses that you want.…Start with the basic tools like Excel,…then SQL, the database query language,…and a statistical programming language like R,…maybe Python, whichever is most comfortable with you.…

Any of these will be enough to get you started…getting some really fascinating insights into sports.…Then, the nice thing about sports is…you can get some real data.…Sports leagues like the NBA supply…their own data sets available for fans to download.…Or fantasy sport sites have information available.…You can also just google any number…of free online sources cause there's…a ton of them out there.…Or, if you really want to make your life easy,…there are packages for analytical languages, for instance,…